Very colorful macarons...

Check out Sparkle's Kitchen on etsy.com - she works to create colorful interesting flavors with Asian influences...

Simple...complex...love the colors.

Chocolate fashioned into green acorns

Chocolate in acorn format a la etsy

Carl Sagan Remix...thanks to MT

Watery feet on warm wood after swimming in the ocean

...or this strange and alluring sculpture that has something to do with the Tibet Prayer Festival...

Warm sahlep on a cold day

It's cold, cold, cold outside, and inside. I am dreaming of some warm, cinnamon-y sahlep.


M. brought some back from his most recent trip to Istanbul, but he says it isn't that great.

I think it is fabulous.





For more on sahlep, made from the roots of orchids, click here.























Check out the old photo of a sahlep seller in Istanbul, above - and a new photo of a sahlep seller in Istanbul, also above...an enduring winter tradition...............

jazz standards - from someone who does not read music, but feels it...